---
name: "Diane Paragas"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/diane-paragas"
fi1m_id: "diane-paragas"
imdb_id: "nm1597602"
tmdb_id: 228223
wikidata_id: "Q5271540"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T18:58:56.655321+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Diane Paragas

## Identity

Diane Paragas

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/diane-paragas
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** diane-paragas
- **IMDb ID:** nm1597602
- **TMDB ID:** 228223
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5271540
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Paragas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5271540, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1597602/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/228223

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Paragas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5271540, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1597602/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/228223

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Little America*](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Diane Paragas is a Filipino-American director, writer and producer of narrative features, documentaries and commercials. She began her career in documentaries and co-directed the 2012 feature Brooklyn Boheme with Nelson George; the film premiered on Showtime and won the Black Reel Award for Outstanding TV Documentary.

Her debut narrative feature, Yellow Rose (2019), which she wrote, directed and produced, follows an undocumented Filipino-American teenager in Texas who dreams of becoming a country singer. The film won multiple Grand Jury and Audience Awards at festivals including LAAPFF, Bentonville and Urbanworld, and received a theatrical release from Sony Pictures in 2020. Paragas has also directed an episode of the second season of the Apple TV+ anthology series Little America (2022). She owns and operates the Brooklyn-based production company Civilian Studios and is a 2022 United States Artists Fellow and 2020 Creative Capital Awardee.

*Sources: dianeparagas.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Little America* (2020), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Yellow Rose* (2020), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Little America* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md)
- *Brooklyn Boheme* (2012), Editor, Executive Producer, Cinematography, Director
- *The Three Lives of David Wong*, Director

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